prologue vocab

Question 1

a phenomenon about which competent observers who have made a series of observations are in agreement

Answer 1

fact

Question 2

an educated guess; a reasonable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as factual until tested over and over again by experiment

Answer 2

hypothesis

Question 3

a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted; also known as a principle

Answer 3

law

Question 4

fake science that pretends to be real

Answer 4

pseudoscience

Question 5

the collective findings of humans about nature, and a process of gathering and organizing knowledge about nature

Answer 5

science

Question 6

principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses

Answer 6

scientific method

Question 7

a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about certain aspects of the natural world

Answer 7

theory